Who Are We? Red Bluff Youth Airsoft Group is a youth-oriented team open to local youths between the ages of 12 and 17 years old and is completely free to join.Our group meets every Saturday at our private playing field in our local area. Meets usually last from 2-5 hours depending on start time, weather conditions, etc. The group competes in a variety of skirmish-based events including Team Aggression, Last Man Standing, Control The Fort, Hostage Rescue and others.

Gameplay varies in style and composition but often range from short-term skirmishes, organized scenarios, military simulations, historical re-enactments, to competition target shooting events. Combat situations on the battlefield often involve the use of common military tactics to achieve objectives set in each game. Participants typically emulate the tactical equipment and accessories used by modern military and police organizations.

Why Airsoft?:

Often, people watch movies and TV and say, "Wow, that gun is awesome!". Actually, what you may be seeing in those movies and TV shows, are in fact, Airsoft guns. Due to their relatively cheap price tags and precise realism, movie studios often employ Airsoft guns for it's production work. They simply digitally alter the images to incorporate muzzle flash, sounds and effects to mimic the real firearms.

Airsoft gives you the ability to own a shooting version of your dream gun. Due to the law and the cost of most firearms, people cannot always own their dream gun. Airsoft provides you with a realistic replica and allows you to shoot that replica (albeit: non-lethal).

Known throughout the world as Skirmishing - there are countless clubs, teams and organizations devoted to the sport of "waging war" with airsoft guns.

The ability to own and play with these "dream guns" are in and of itself appealing enough to enthusiasts. Add the advantage of being able to take these guns out to a local playing field and "shooting" your best friends with it in team-based competition is a hands down selling point!

Another appeal to Airsoft is the ability to "role-play" with them. In essence, role-playing allows people to fulfill their fantasies, which (due to physical disabilities or circumstances) they never got the chance to. These people may be bankers, insurance brokers, secretaries, students, computer programmers by profession, but for 1 day a week they can be Green Berets, Assassins, SWAT members, or Navy SEALs. Their mind is the only limit. This role-playing ability is enhanced by the fact that Airsoft guns are extremely realistic.

After all, it's rather difficult to play the part of a Navy SEAL when you're holding a neon colored, Super-Soaker squirt gun!

Airsoft History:

The sport of Airsoft started in Japan during the early 1980s. It was illegal to own firearms in Japan but there was a significant interest in them, so a company started producing spring-powered replicas of firearms that fired 6mm, plastic BBs. During the latter part of the 1980s the sport migrated to neighboring countries such as Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Airsoft started appearing in North America and Europe during the middle of the 1990's.

Generally speaking, most of the more popular real-steel firearms has an Airsoft gun counterpart. The MP5 series, to include MP5A4, MP5 SD5, MP5 PDW. The venerable G3 Battle Rifle series. Colt M16s. Steyr AUGs. SIG 550s. FAMAS. AK-47s. Machine Guns like the M60. Sub-machine guns such as the IMI Uzis and Ingrams. Pistols such as the famed Berettas, Colts, SIGs, and Glocks. Shotguns such as the Benelli M2 and Remington 870. Sniping rifles such as the PSG-1, M40A1, Blaser 93R. Even the "Hollywood" guns like the RoboCop auto-pistol and the M134 Vulcan (6-barrel gatling gun) made famous by the Predator and Terminator movies. The list of Airsoft guns is quite sizeable, and growing with each passing mont

The above information has been reproduced from AirsSplat.com's Airsoft University. For more information visit Airsoft University

SAFETY:

Safety is always a priority - and especially in dealing with airsoft sports! Thanks to our many sponsors, each player is given the proper safety equipment before entering the playing field.

The safety equipment standard is a pair of shatter-resistent clear goggles, military-style soft cap and gloves. Although the airsoft BBs do not actually cause wounds or injuries, there is potential for it so always having proper safety equipment is a must.